New guidance highlights how Excel's built‑in automation features, such as Power Query, PivotTables, Office Scripts, and dynamic arrays, can complete data tasks faster than AI chatbots like ChatGPT—if ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

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So far Excel users had three ways to invoke Copilot. Microsoft has now decided that was three too many. In February 2026, the company retired App Skills entry points from the Excel ribbon and context ...

Microsoft is removing the standalone App Skills feature in Excel as it continues to streamline Copilot across Microsoft 365. The move follows broader changes to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) after ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. Spreadsheets...Love them or hate them, they're everywhere and ...

The Trump administration announced that the company, a pharmacy benefit manager, had agreed to make significant changes to its practices. By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson The reporters have ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Frankenstein, Netflix’s epic drama and long ...

Microsoft releases a major update to the Excel for Windows interface, including a totally modernised “Get Data” dialogue that will make connecting to external data sources easier. This is the first ...